GeForce GTX 970 SLI review - Comments (Page 2)

#4923275

Hilbert Hagedoorn

Administrator

2014-09-26 18:21

Regarding Thief, I thought it was FXAA only. Did a run with SSAA - High and got 87.3fps, very interesting.

Yes, that sounds about right with your overclock.

#4923287

TheHippogriff

2014-09-26 18:43

BTW, I'm curious about 780Ti prices (new and used) in rest of the civilized world, any drops yet? Here in Serbia prices for 780Ti are frozen in time, they are same like few months ago, juuuuust great :bang:

You can get a new 780Ti for $425 in the USA right now

#4923294

Icanium

2014-09-26 18:54

The review of the ref GTX 970 only showed pictures of the GTX 980. I saw pictures of GTX 970 with short PCB so I thought the reference PCB would look like this EVGA GTX 970. Nothing like the GTX 970 cards with the TITAN coolers http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487070

#4923298

Netherwind

2014-09-26 18:56

Yes, that sounds about right with your overclock.

Good to hear. Enjoy your beer Hilbert 🙂

The review of the ref GTX 970 only showed pictures of the GTX 980. I saw pictures of GTX 970 with short PCB so I thought the reference PCB would look like this EVGA GTX 970. Nothing like the GTX 970 cards with the TITAN coolers http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487070

It was mentioned earlier that this is a OEM sample. The 970 refs you find in stores have some kind of plastic coolers like the one you linked.

#4923306

Mato87

2014-09-26 19:11

You can get a new 780Ti for $425 in the USA right now

What? Where? Here the cheapest 780Ti costs over 530 euro, thats almost 670 us dollars.

#4923328

Carfax

2014-09-26 19:35

Weird how this review differs so much from TPU's in terms of the results, especially at 4K..

#4923354

Loophole35

2014-09-26 19:52

Weird how this review differs so much from TPU's in terms of the results, especially at 4K..

TPU is not using AA in it's 4K tests.

#4923362

Noisiv

2014-09-26 20:01

Good to hear. Enjoy your beer Hilbert 🙂 It was mentioned earlier that this is a OEM sample. The 970 refs you find in stores have some kind of plastic coolers like the one you linked.

OEM is ref, and that 970 is only a traditional ref lookalike.

#4923409

TheHippogriff

2014-09-26 21:18

What? Where? Here the cheapest 780Ti costs over 530 euro, thats almost 670 us dollars.

Newegg

#4923458

---TK---

2014-09-26 22:41

Nice to see my current cards at or near the top of the 1440p list. So glad I went ti sli instead of 780 sli that I was on the fence at the time.

#4923468

---TK---

2014-09-26 22:58

What? Where? Here the cheapest 780Ti costs over 530 euro, thats almost 670 us dollars.

http://www.newegg.com/global/uk/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487072 UK price

#4923494

BigBlockTowncar

2014-09-26 23:22

I have seen several of the 700 series card on sale at newegg. They had the regular 780 for a little less than the 970 with a rebate. The only 970 cards that newegg had in stock earlier today were EVGA, looks like the bad press is part of that....all others were out of stock. The ACX card or whatever they call it had pretty bad reviews, only 3 egg average. Will my core i7 920 hold back the 970 card?

#4923522

Loophole35

2014-09-26 23:50

A single 970 maybe not. What is you 920 clocked at?

#4923532

EKRboi

2014-09-27 00:02

Has anyone seen tri SLI benches/reviews yet? I can get 3 970's for basically the cost of 2 980's. I know in the past the 3rd card's scaling is not the same as adding a 2nd.. is maxwell better at multi gpu scaling? I'm pretty certain 3x970 > 2 x980 in most things, and the price just makes sense. Or would it still make more sense to get 2 980's and add a 3rd in a yearish that's used or new one that will be cheaper by then. I have 3 monitors now and want the best price/perf for slamming through games @ 5760x1080 for the next could of years.

#4923567

BigBlockTowncar

2014-09-27 00:46

A single 970 maybe not. What is you 920 clocked at?

It is stock right now, but I can move it up.

#4923586

Loophole35

2014-09-27 01:27

If you can bump it then do it. I could only see it holding you back in a few games but its not like you are using a Phenom 2 x4 or anything you should be fine for the most part.

#4923605

eclap

2014-09-27 01:58

Great review Hilbert. I'm kinda tempted to get another 970 just for laughs. Don't really need it atm, but the damn thing in SLI would run anything I can throw at it at 1440p and reach near enough 120fps in most games (with some settings reduced, of course, to hit that target). Still, to see 970 SLI compete with 780ti SLI is promising, things will improve with better drivers too, at least they should. Might just get another MSI Gaming next month, the way these things just run super quiet and cool is making me think SLI would be a great move.

Has anyone seen tri SLI benches/reviews yet? I can get 3 970's for basically the cost of 2 980's. I know in the past the 3rd card's scaling is not the same as adding a 2nd.. is maxwell better at multi gpu scaling? I'm pretty certain 3x970 > 2 x980 in most things, and the price just makes sense. Or would it still make more sense to get 2 980's and add a 3rd in a yearish that's used or new one that will be cheaper by then. I have 3 monitors now and want the best price/perf for slamming through games @ 5760x1080 for the next could of years.

I would just get 970 SLI and instead of buying a 3rd one, get a nice i5/i7. You'll see much better performance on a 970 SLI / intel rig than on a 970 TRI SLI / 8350 rig.

#4923608

fantaskarsef

2014-09-27 02:04

Great review. This is definitely what I want! Question: if a motherboard has 3 PCI-E x16 slots and can run in a x16/x16/x4 configuration, does that imply I can also run it in a x16/x4/x16 configuration? In other words, I can choose which slots to run sli in, and I don't have to use the top two slots to get full x16 speed...?

No, you have to keep it to what your mainboard is able to give. Consult your MB manual to check it out if you're not sure how you can use them. On Topic, nice to see the 970 be such a nice pair for SLI. I'm only surprised there wasn't an overclock comparison, as in both cards OCed against stock.

#4924063

Mato87

2014-09-27 19:31

http://www.newegg.com/global/uk/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487072 UK price

Thanks, but thats still over 470 euro and the courier service with toll taxes would cost another 50 euro at least Thanks anyway, now I just have to wait for my gtx 970's to arrive in the next 2 weeks, Iam very hopeful, I think 700 euro for two gigabyte gtx 970's is a great value fo money 🙂

#4924211

EKRboi

2014-09-27 23:48

I would just get 970 SLI and instead of buying a 3rd one, get a nice i5/i7. You'll see much better performance on a 970 SLI / intel rig than on a 970 TRI SLI / 8350 rig.

yea... a new motherboard and proc are not on my list of things to buy right now. I couldn't possibly care less about my PC benchmark or raw performance #s. So long as I can maintain 60fps across 3 screens on the games I want to play and at the settings I want to run them, then I am a happy camper.. Not spending money on a new system to get 98fps with i5 vs 93fps (if its even that much a difference) with my 8350 when I'm gonna use vsync to lock it to 60 anyways. More than likely ill get 2 980's, because historically tri sli being useful is much more hit or miss than dual sli. But, i have not seen any tri sli benches for any of the new cards so I'm curious if they have made any improvements in that area with maxwell. I'm doubting it, but it's not impossible. so for now new gpus are the only thing I am worried about. Ill be interested in upgrading the main system when ddr4 prices come down and x99 matures a bit (read, gets cheaper). So maybe end of next year, and by then I'm hoping that AMD pulls something worth while out of their arse so I don't have to switch to intel. Either way, what ever gpus I purchase now will work in it when I build it.